Mapping data to graphics

Content for Monday, January 27, 2025–Friday, January 31, 2025

Readings

• Hans Rosling, “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes”
• Chapter 2 in Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Wilke 2018)
• Chapter 3 in Data Visualization (Healy 2018)

Other resources

This tutorial by Cédric Scherer is an excellent demonstration of the grammar of graphics and the sequential nature of building up a plot layer-by-layer.

Slides

The slides for this week’s lesson are available online as an HTML file. Use the buttons below to open the slides either as an interactive website or as a static PDF (for printing or storing for later). You can also click in the slides below and navigate through them with your left and right arrow keys.

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Tip

Fun fact: If you type ? (or shift + /) while going through the slides, you can see a list of special slide-specific commands.

Videos

Videos for each section of the lecture are available at this YouTube playlist.

• Introduction
• Data, aesthetics, and the grammar of graphics
• Grammatical layers
• Aesthetics in extra dimensions
• Tidy data

You can also watch the playlist (and skip around to different sections) here:

References

Healy, Kieran. 2018. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton: Princeton University Press. http://socviz.co/.

Wilke, Claus E. 2018. Fundamentals of Data Visualization. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media. https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/.